Oh, those idealistic, young Obama campaign volunteers. Campaigning in the heart of Indiana and Pennsylvania, they probably set out on their missions excited to bring willing voters over to their side. Instead, many of them had quite the opposite experience. The Washington Post heard from a number of Obama campaign volunteers from Indiana and Pennsylvania who said that their efforts often resulted in racist language (even directed toward white volunteers), name calling, and lots of doors slammed in faces.

Voters in Muncie, Ind., told Danielle Ross, a 20-year-old white woman who took the year off from college to campaign for Obama, "'I'll never vote for a black person." People just weren't receptive."

One phone bank volunteer charged with calling her 98-percent-white hometown in Pennsylvania, recalled one person saying to her, after vowing to never vote for Obama, "Hang that darky from a tree!"

Later, Obama's headquarter's in Vincennes, Ind., were vandalized. The Obama campaign downplays these incidents, saying that they are isolated and that support has been overwhelmingly positive. True: the man is winning.

Earlier in his campaign, he had this to say about racism: "Will there be some folks who probably won't vote for me because I am black? Of course, just like there may be somebody who won't vote for Hillary because she's a woman or wouldn't vote for John Edwards because they don't like his accent. But the question is, 'Can we get a majority of the American people to give us a fair hearing?' "

Obama has won 5 out of 12 contests where black voters make up less than 10 percent of the electorate. Today, in West Virginia, he is slated to lose (badly). His question remains, "Can we get a majority of the American people to give us a fair hearing?" Without the votes of thousands of whites, Obama wouldn't be winning the nomination race.